DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat (AP) — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported.
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- "AM GAY...": MAN WH RABOW T-SHIRT DI DAYS AFTER DETENTN IN QATAR
- GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- THIS MAN FLED QATAR FEAR OF PERSECUTN BEE HE'S GAY. NOW HE'S PHG BACK
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
"AM GAY...": MAN WH RABOW T-SHIRT DI DAYS AFTER DETENTN IN QATAR
The brother of Grant Wahl, a soccer journalist who died on Friday after llapsg the prs box at a World Cup match Qatar, spects Wahl was killed by the regime for promotg gay rights. * gay guy killed in qatar *
I'm gay, " he said a vio posted on Instagram. Grant’s brother, Eric, origally took to Instagram to say he is gay and is the reason Wahl earlier durg the tournament wore a rabow shirt — to support his gay brother Qatar, where is illegal to be gay. The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room.
One of the biggt ncerns about the Middle East untry is s laws which outlaw homosexualy, wh LGBT+ people the untry at risk of imprisonment or even the ath penalty. One gay man om the Philipp who worked Qatar as an office assistant, has told how he was lured to a hotel and gang-raped by police.
The man, 'Ali', told the i that he received a msage on a gay datg app om a man claimg to be a Turkish worker. The police officers then searched his bag, accg him of beg a prostute, before another gay man arrived after also beg lured to a hotel.
GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
Referred to as Qatar’s first person to e out publicly as gay, Dr. Nasser Mohamed thought havg the World Cup on his home soil was the perfect opportuny to shed light on the untry’s mistreatment of LGBTQ2+ people. * gay guy killed in qatar *
Acrdg to the report, several other gay men have claimed they were 'hunted' the same way by Qatar's police force. The brother of Grant Wahl, a soccer journalist who died on Friday after llapsg the prs box at a World Cup match Qatar, spects Wahl was killed by the regime for promotg gay rights. I'm gay, " Eric Wahl said an Instagram vio post, acrdg to a New York Post report.
Homosexual activy is illegal Qatar unr the untry's Islamic Sharia law s. Day 69:12This man fled Qatar fear of persecutn bee he's gay.
Now he's phg backHavg been referred to as Qatar's first person to e out publicly as gay, Dr. It's an LGBTQ2+ soccer supporters club for Qatar's natnal team, named after the lour of the team's World Cup ambassador: Homosexualy is 'damage the md'As the tournament rolls on, Qatar ntu to face global scty for s crimalizatn of homosexualy. I went to my first gay bar there.
THIS MAN FLED QATAR FEAR OF PERSECUTN BEE HE'S GAY. NOW HE'S PHG BACK
But then when I walked [to the gay bar] I didn't even really spend time wh anybody. I jt knew immediately I was gay. The ty natn of Bnei recently ed ternatnal outrage when enacted dranian laws makg gay sex a pal crime.
After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts. Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.
The acunts differ on the method of killg, and other acunts suggt lser penalti for homosexual acts, pendg on the circumstanc. An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world. YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong. Gay women are to be imprisoned for up to three January 2019 a man Iran was hanged after beg found guilty of havg sex wh another man.
Homosexualy was ma a crime punishable by the ath penalty 1979 after the Islamic Revolutn.
In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry. Two of the most shockg measur were punishg thiev by amputatn and makg homosexual acts and adultery pal crim. MraniaHomosexualy has always been illegal Mrania, the 11th largt untry Ai by area.
HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
This ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath. Not only did ban gay marriage, but also banned the registratn of gay clubs, societi and other anizatns supportg the LGBT muny. Public displays of affectn between gay people is also prohibed.
Anyone found guilty of homosexualy n be put prison for up to 14 years. While this law is applied across the entire untry, 12 northern stat have their own laws, punishg gay men and women wh ath by stong. Gay men and women live fear.
The subject of homosexualy is a taboo. Honor killgs, where relativ kill the gay man or woman to rtore the fay's honor, are not unheard of. The punishment for other gay activi, fed as "acts of lt, " is also imprisonment but between two months and two years.
RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
In 2012, a newly adopted provisnal nstutn ma Somalia's terpretatn of Sharia law "the supreme law of the untry, " makg homosexualy a crime that n be punished by floggg or the ath penalty.
The Penal Co is not explicly clear about homosexualy beg a pal crime or not.
The legal lgo n be terpreted as makg all male homosexual terurse a pal crime but n also mean that 's only for forced male homosexual terurse. Consensual homosexual relatns are punishable several ways, cludg hangg. There is no rerd to date of nsensual homosexual acts beg punished by anythg but jail terms of differg lengths and f.